Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis (R,C,I-Brooklyn/Staten Island) joined Assembly and Senate colleagues yesterday at the joint budget hearing on elementary and secondary education. The hearing allowed members of the legislature to discuss budget priorities, as well as issues facing elementary and secondary schools with education stakeholders from across the state. As a follow up to last year’s budget hearing in which Malliotakis brought up her concern that cursive writing was no longer being taught in New York City’s elementary schools, the Assemblywoman was relieved to receive a commitment from New York City Chancellor Carmen Fariña that cursive writing is once again being included in the third grade curriculum in city schools. Many schools already began implementing the curriculum this year.

“I thank New York City Chancellor Fariña for hearing my concerns about the discontinuation of cursive instruction, and am pleased that over the past year she has worked with superintendents across the city to ensure third graders will once again learn cursive writing.” said Malliotakis. “It is important that young people, who will soon be entering the real world, know how to write a signature of their own to identify themselves, and have the ability to sign a legal document, check, or voter registration form. Without knowing how to read script, students can’t even read historic documents like the Declaration of Independence. It is very unfortunate that there is a generation of students who did not learn to write and read cursive, but today we have been assured that this wrong has been corrected.”

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